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Real-life tips for managing Red projects and getting back to Green

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Or some other criteria as defined in your project management process internally, that specifies what Red means for you. Maybe your estimates were poor or you forgot to add something into scope that you really should have worked out in advance. For example, bring in a contractor to speed up developing an IT system. It happens.

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Get Inspired: 13 Creativity Exercises for Non-Creatives

ProjectManager.com

We’re tasked with developing new products, taking them to market, making our systems more efficient and well, so much more. But when you look online for creativity exercises to help breakthrough those blocks, artists dominate the conversation. Quality is a very good thing in an end-product, but it can slow you down in development.

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10 Career-limiting mistakes to avoid

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Career-limiting because: No one wants to work with the project manager who emails the operational team a closure document and is never seen again. Not talking about problems Surprises are bad. If you don't talk about problems then you risk hitting your manager with bad news. Project sponsors don't like bad news either.

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30 Team Building Activities

ProjectManager.com

Teams don’t just come together and click into well-oiled productivity machines, at least not always. There’s often a period of time when the team members have to get to know one another and develop a rapport. In other words, every team can find value in team-building exercise. Communication Activities.

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Can AI Generate High-Quality Code?

Scrum.org

Implementing Test-Driven Development (TDD) enhances readability, maintainability, and modularity. Even AI exhibits caution in refactoring without tests, mirroring human developer behaviour. These challenges prompted me to consider how AI-generated code would fare in a structured coding exercise, such as a simple Kata.

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12 Sure-Fire Ways to Improve Project Risk Management

Project Risk Coach

His response revealed his belief in risk management but a lack of actual application with his teams. I will first present a common reason for poor risk management and then present the positive actions you can take. They facilitate risk identification exercises that result in a boatload of risks. Frankly, he did not know how.

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Agile Metrics — The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Scrum.org

Suitable agile metrics reflect either a team’s progress in becoming agile or your organization’s progress in becoming a learning organization. At the team level, qualitative agile metrics often work better than quantitative metrics. A team may have deliberately built some temporary solutions to speed up experimentation.